My Teachers

<span style="font-size:85">I love my teachers for the most part. I've had the same teachers for the past 2 years of school because they loop, shift, whatever you want to call it up a grade with their students. I really know them now, I'm comfortable with them, etc. But lately, two of my teachers have been driving me nuts! <br><br><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-weight:bold">Algebra Teacher-Too impatient</span></span></span> <br>Let's call my algebra teacher Mrs. S, it's not her real name or initial. Last year I thought Mrs. S was pretty nice. She took a lot of time off because she was pregnant, so we only had her for about half the year and she was out sick a lot. Her lessons were boring and she wasn't animated when she talked but I still thought she was nice and kind of funny too. Now, it's a different story. Last month I deemed her my official least favorite 2010/2011 teacher. She invented this new thing. We do a warm up. She grades it. We do good? Nothing. We do bad? We have to stay after school for help. Today, instead of grading a warm up she decided to give us review. She said, "If don't do well you will be staying after school many days and I will be calling your parents to let them know that you are not getting what we've learned." She gave us about 25minutes to do almost 30 questions. We were rushed, pressured, and nervous about doing poorly. Plus, we just came back from break and our minds aren't exactly right back in the swing of things. PLUS, the review was stuff we haven't done for months, some even a year ago! Well, I got a 59% on the review. My two friends got a 56% and a 67%. One of the smartest people in the class got an 86%, low for her. We just handed in the papers, and I am nervous about having to stay after. It's only one paper, we need a little more review, we made some mistakes. Give us one more day, go over the paper, then see if we need help. Last time she asked me to stay it was for a warm up, I really did understand it but I made a couple mistakes and needed a little reminder. After that I completly got it and coming down for "help" was a total waste of my time. I see that she's trying to help us, but she's too impatient! If we don't understand something she says "Well, this isn't hard you should be getting this by now guys." She makes you feel bad for not understanding something, she doesn't give it enough time ans she puts too much pressure on us because we're the advanced class. I only need a little reminder of some of the things and I'll be ok, but she will probably call my parents, and make me waste my time by staying after for help. Trust me, I'm not an idiot. If I really do need help with something, I will stay after. <br><br><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-weight:bold">Earth Science Teacher-Too Nice</span></span></span><br>This is different. Last month I deemed my science teacher, we'll call him Mr. M, my favorite teacher of the 2010/2011 year. But sometimes, ok a lot of the time, he is too nice. He lets us talk, eat, put our feet up, and shout out questions/answers in his class. Once he even let me and a bunch of other people turn in a paper 2 weeks late with no points off because I forgot about it. It's nice to get a break from the strict teachers and rules once and a while, but sometimes it goes too far. He lets people switch seats. He tells them to go back to their seats, but they just beg him for one chance and he gives in. If he catches someone with a cell phone, which happened today, he lets it slide. If it was another teacher, you'd be down at the principal's office with your phone taken away. People text all through his class and if he notices he doesn't care. They talk and all he does is wait for them to be quiet, no punishment or even a little lecture. He thinks not getting a head start on our homework because he had to wait is punishment enough, but 90% of the class doesn't care about that. I have never, in the almost 2 years I've been his student heard him yell, and he rarely even raises his voice. It's annoying and hard to focus when people are laughing and talking in the back. Me and some other people have made comments to him asking why they could sit together, tried to get the others to be quiet but it never works. And it's the same people, about 10 out of almost 30 in the class that do it over and over again. Today at the end he said they wouldn't be able to sit next to each other tomorrow even if they couldn't see the board. What, no punishment? Other teachers would give them detention in a minute. He patient, kind, and cares about students' personal lives which is nice, but he doesn't know how to control the class. I don't think he has a mean bone in his body. <br><br>I didn't think it would be that long. Here's a cookie if you read it, and if you reply with helpful advice or a nice comment you get two cookies! Thanks for reading my rant, does anyone know how to deal with staying after for help I don't really need or letting my science teacher know that he needs to control the class-without being a tattletale?</span>